He's adapting Lynda La Plante's 1980s TV series
In the last couple of days, there has been a lot of talk about Steve McQueen settling on a film about activist Paul Robeson as his next project. It appears he’s ready to zag when everyone expected him to zig, signing on instead to focus on turning a 1980s crime drama into a film.
McQueen has partnered up with New Regency for the film, which he’ll write and produce, adapting Lynda La Plante’s 1983 miniseries Widows. The original series – two more followed in 1985 and then 2002 – starred Ann Mitchell, Maureen O’Farrell and Fiona Hendley in the story of three women who all lose their criminal husbands when the men die in the middle of robbing a security van that catches fire.
Together with Eva Mottley’s Bella O’Reilly, they succeed in tracking down the cash for themselves. Until, that is, Mitchell’s character discovers that her husband didn’t actually die in the incident…
It seems like an odd film for the man who made 12 Years A Slave, but then he’s shown a willingness to tackle different subjects before and never wants to settle on a genre. The idea is for him to kick off pre-production on the film before 2014 breathes its last.
from Empire News
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